Re: [FR] yank media: allow customization of absolute path a filter for type candidates

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Visuwesh <visuweshm@gmail.com> writes:
>> 1. do a variable for selecting absolute path: to be able to have a file 
>> link that works with absolute path; and the reason is that being 
>> relative, this, does not combine good when you move your latex export 
>> somewhere else (in my case, I usually move it to /tmp/, and from there I 
>> decide when I want to save something persistently), hence it fails, and 
>> I got tired on fixing the links, in fact, the absolute path sometimes is 
>> smaller than the relative one 
>> =file:/tmp/clipboard-20240916T013308.png]]= vs 
>> =[[file:../../../tmp/clipboard-20240916T011913.png]]=
>
> This can be done in the org side.  I guess adding another defcustom
> would be the way to go? I don't see how it is possible to make
> org-yank-image-save-method accept another option.

We can re-use `org-link-file-path-type'.
Probably, simply by factoring out the cond from `org-insert-link' and
then reusing it in yank handler.

>> 2. do a variable that allow a list that would filter and reduce the type 
>> candidates of yank-media. In org-download, everything was png so I was 
>> not having the "Several types available, choose one" with 7 options. But 
>> then is like, oh, maybe I would like to be able to switch between png 
>> (synthetic image), jpg (natural image)... anyway, I hope you see 
>> customizing this is interesting for the users.
>
> This needs to be done in the Emacs side.  The querying is done in
> yank-media and nothing much can be done from org-mode.

That's one option - we can ask Emacs devs to provide a customization for
`yank-media' to auto-select specific type once it is available.

Another possibility is making "image/.*" customizable in
(yank-media-handler "image/.*" #'org--image-yank-media-handler)

Then, users may limit image types that can be inserted into Org by
setting that regexp to something like "image/png".

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